Violent politics
Subtitle: a history of insurgency, terrorism & guerrilla war, from the American Revolution to Iraq
By: William R. Polk
Edition: Updated and expanded., 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780061236204
Subjects: Insurgency; History; Terrorism; Guerrilla warfare
Description: An examination of the role of insurgent tactics in world conflicts throughout the past two-and-a-half centuries places current issues in a context of world history while covering events that marked such examples as the war in Iraq.
Notes: Previous edition: New York : HarperCollins, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: The; title: American insurgency -- -- The; title: Spanish guerrilla against the French -- -- The; title: Philippine 'insurrection' -- -- The; title: Irish struggle for independence --; title: Tito and the Yugoslav partisans -- -- The; title: Greek resistance --; title: Kenya and the Mau Mau -- -- The; title: Algerian war of national independence -- -- The; title: Vietnamese struggle against the French --; title: America takes over from France in Vietnam -- -- The; title: Afghan resistance to the British and the Russians.